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Members of IAM Local Lodge 449, District 75 of Tyndall AFB in Florida voted by a 98 percent margin to ratify a new three year agreement with Defense Support Service (DS2). Highlights of the agreement include a general wage increase of 3.25 percent, 3 percent and 3 percent respectively each year, a lead premium of
Read moreWisconsin Democratic State Senator Dave Hansen easily defeated his Republican challenger in the first of nine recall races sparked by Wisconsin GOP Governor Scott Walker’s attacks on working families. Three Democratic Senators, who were part of the “Wisconsin 14” who left the state to keep the legislature from passing Walker’s anti-worker budget bill, face recall
Read moreby Leo Hindery, Jr., July 25, 2011, The Huffington Post America is facing a catastrophic jobs crisis. Not since the Great Depression has official unemployment hovered above nine percent — where it is today — for more than 20 months. Millions of American have given up looking for a job altogether. Even worse, real unemployment
Read moreThe House Committee on Education and the Workforce today continued its partisan attack on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) by approving a bill to prohibit the NLRB from doing its job of protecting workers and their right to bargain collectively. The so-called “Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act” (HR 2587) prohibits the NLRB from
Read moreA bipartisan plan to cut the deficit appears to be getting a major boost in Washington, but caveat emptor (buyer beware) warns the IAM. The proposal, negotiated by a group of senators from both parties known as the “Gang of 6,” is said to reduce the deficit by about $3.7 trillion over the next ten
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